RT @Coinosphere: I'm pretty sure most everyone has not yet grasped the full awesomeness of @BtcpayServer's new deployment process. It's truly a 3-click deployment for full BTCs & LNs node, with solid cloud hosting for $9 per month!
https://t.co/paEUpunKKP

RT @Coinosphere: I'm pretty sure most everyone has not yet grasped the full awesomeness of @BtcpayServer's new deployment process. It's truly a 3-click deployment for full BTCs & LNs node, with solid cloud hosting for $9 per month!
https://t.co/paEUpunKKP

RT @Coinosphere: I'm pretty sure most everyone has not yet grasped the full awesomeness of @BtcpayServer's new deployment process. It's truly a 3-click deployment for full BTCs & LNs node, with solid cloud hosting for $9 per month!
https://t.co/paEUpunKKP

Howdy Litecoin community! This is my first posts here about BTCPay,but I've seen plenty of re-posts from r/Bitcoin, so thought to break the ice and post directly here.

General feedback was that the free and open-source payment software is cool, but the installation is complicated. With this Deployment Web Wizard we solved that issue. If you have the time I would appreciate any feedback that you might have.

Now you can deploy full Bitcoin, Litecoin and other supported coins node and LND in under a minute. You can use Zap wallet integration and have your own Lightning Node.

Let me share some helpful resources for those who never heard of BTCPay before.

BTCPay FAQ - provides a very good overview on what is BTCPay and why is it important

Quite briefly, BTCPay Server is a free and open-source cryptocurrency payment processor which allows you to receive payments in Bitcoin, Litecoin and oter coins (on-chain and via the Lightning Network) and altcoins directly, with no fees, transaction cost or a middleman by running our own node.

Feel free to ask any sort of questions here or on BTCPay Slack, I'll be checking the post regularly throughout the day.

Also, there is a Litecoin payment processor built on top of BTCPay called https://ltcpay.com

Shit like this isn't celebrated enough in the community.
This is key infrastructure.
Yes we are going to the moon, we're going in a rocket. But before the rocket we are going to need a rocket launchpad :)

This is such an awesome project, thank you for all you're doing for the community.

I want to make a suggestion which is actually a disimprovement from the perspective of financial sovereignty, but might make this payment processing option more palatable for merchants. And that is if you launched an option that integrated a "regular" fiat payment processor alongside the bitcoin payment processor. As someone who personally dislikes fiat and tries not to hold any, it pains me to say it, but when I've suggested bitcoin to merchants before, the thing that is a real turn-off for them (in my experience) is that it complicates things for the buyer. I think this perception could be mitigated if bitcoin was simply one option alongside credit, debit, and paypal; if your system was a one-stop shop where they could set up all of the above, it might be a more attractive option.

I'm not sure what your suggestion is, but you're probably referring to fiat conversion. That's something that we talked about on Slack. The plan is to create an easy pluggable way in which exchanges can connect and merchants can choose local exchanges so that their bitcoin can be converted in full or partially into fiat to mitigate the volatility risk. I'm not sure when it's coming.
BTCPay integrates into many e-commerce systems and is displayed next to fiat, paypal, etc if that's what you're referring to.

> BTCPay integrates into many e-commerce systems and is displayed next to fiat, paypal, etc if that's what you're referring to.
This is more along the lines of what I'm talking about, except I think it would also be cool if there was an option where the setup wizard for your product also goddess through the process of setting up PayPal, and included debit/credit processing as part of that. Then, a merchant could use one wizard to set up all his payment options, simplifying things. I hope this clarifies what I mean. Anyway, thank you for your awesome product and great work!

Where did you come up with that number? It's 8.8$/month with this particular host. Devs did an insane amount of optimization. When BTCPay started the easiest way to deploy cost 65$/month via Azure. Read the article.
If you're a technical user you can use whatever VPS you want which meets the minimal requirements and deploy with a docker or other offered method.

Exactly. You can plug BTCPay into any VPS. This is just the easiest way currently. For those with little technical knowledge, [here is Docker deployment documentation](https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-docker#full-installation-for-technical-users)

I'm sure this is a stupid question but it's nearly the end of the workday (why won't you moon?!?!) and I'm fried. This is the first I've heard of BTCPay Server but I'm already running a full BTC node and Lightning Network Node (via Eclair). Is this the same thing but a 1-click setup, or is there something else I should do to support this?

Hey man! Been fried myself, know what you mean.
So BTCPay is an open-source and free payment processor for merchants. But it's also a tool regular people use (to receive donations, use LN, soon chain-swaps, and God knows what Nicolas Dorier will implement).
I am not 100% sure, but isn't Eclair using their LN node? Or they allow users to connect their own nodes? Not quite sure as it's been a while I used it. Nevertheless, to support BTCPay - the easiest way is to use the software, provide feedback and report any bugs or issues you or maybe if you're merchant your customers encounter. If you're a developer, you can help us develop and improve the software by contributing on the GitHub. Translating BTCPay into your native language, helping us with documentation writing are ways in which you can help us out, even if you're not a developer or tech-savvy.

Hey, also had a question along those same lines. I'm in the process of following Stadicus' RasberryPi LN node guide and wondering if this BTCPay server accomplishes the same thing? The guide I'm referring to is in the link below.
https://github.com/Stadicus/guides/tree/master/raspibolt

It really depends what you're trying to accomplish? BTCPay is not only LND+Full node tool, but it's also a complete merchant system and a payment processor, so a bit more complex and versatile.
If your goal is LN on a hardware device, go with Stadicus's tutorial.
There are people selling [BTCPay on hardware devices](https://lightninginabox.co/), but there are also free tutorials [this one](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PyX4R6zQt8tyVl8wkWhphAfFU5q4HatBGv3YvvZX6zE/preview) and [this one](https://lightninginabox.co/2018/08/build-your-own-bitcoin-lightning-full-node/)
I'd also recommend you read [BTCPay FAQ](https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver-doc/blob/master/FAQ.md)

Ah, I think I did hear about it now that you say that. [\[HERE\]](https://bitcoinshirt.co/how-to-create-store-accept-bitcoin/)
I am unfortunately neither a dev or a merchant, just a HODLer with a spare PC. I think I may have opened payment channels from my node (platform9and3quarters) to merchants who were using your systems at once point.
Best of luck - it's a bit longterm but I do plan on starting a biz and if I do I'll revisit BTCPay as I get setup!

> Would love to see more tutorials of how to run Lightning through this interface and how to set up channels.
Actually, there's already a [video tutorial on how to do this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWhTOunTb2Q)
Basically, you just have to deploy BTCPay and wait for it to sync. (Make sure to select LND from the Wizard). You can download Zap wallet. And [follow this guide](https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-tutorials/blob/master/zap-desktop-btcpay-server.md) You basically have to copy paste a configuration from BTCPay into Zap.
Bam you're using Lightning Network via your own node!

Agreed. That's why at the end the article we sent an open invitation to all providers offering free help during the process as we did with LunaNode.
If anyone knows a hosting provider that might be interested in creating similar deployment wizard, let us know! The entire tool is open-source on GitHub. Kudos to LunaNode for pushing open-source approach as we never asked them to do it.

Not really sure what you mean?
BTCPay can be set on any VPS [see this](https://nbitstack.com/t/how-to-set-up-btcpay-server-on-my-existing-vps/74/2)
If you're a VPS provider, we'd be happy to give you a hand, though LunaNode script is also open-source.

Thanks for your reply. The VPS infrastructure was, or is, the "missing link" to me.
Which means, if I am able to set up a small scale "VPS Infrastructure", I could host a few BTCPay Server, for like 3-5 Merchants in my local area, on my own hardware.
I guess I still do have some reading to do around those topics (mainly software requirements, recommended settings etc) before I can handle this without dependencies of someone elses ("3rd party") services.